4565. Boards Navy 43 to Stevens from Hurley. Your 58.1 Requa2 petroleum Administrator recommends not taking part in petroleum conference until he can be heard.3There appears to be doubt as to effect of conference on American oil efforts. 10<0>044565.

Footnote 3: It appears that the United States did not participate in the informal meetings of the Petroleum Conference but did so once the formal meetings began in May, 1918. Martin Gibson, Britain’s Quest for Oil: The First World War and the Peace Conferences (West Midlands, England: Helion & Company, 2017), 87.